Voting in the Kapiri Mposhi Parliamentary by election this morning started at a slow note.
A check by ZANIS at selected polling stations within the constituency showed only a small number of voters had cast their votes by 09:00 Hours as voters were trickling into the polling stations one-by-one.
No queues were formed at the selected polling stations by press time although most stations opened at exactly 06:00 hours.
The voter turnout at TAZARA Polling Station as at 07:00 hours was only 72 out of 3,634 registered voters.
TAZARA Polling Station presiding officer, Prisca Musonda, explained that even though the station opened on time few people had cast their votes.
At Old Civic Center Polling Station, 88 people had voted by 07:20 hours out of 3,547 registered voters while 128 electorates had voted at Matiliyo Polling Station around 09:00 hours out of a total number of 2,708 registered voters at the station.
Meanwhile, 54 people had voted at Palamedes Polling Station out of 1,720 registered voters around 09:30 hours.
Palamedes Polling Station Presiding Officer, Eunicade Mwelwa, said the station opened at 06:11 hours.
Kapiri Mposhi has a total of 84,368 registered voters with 140 voting streams doted across the constituency.
The Kapiri Mposhi constituency by-election was necessitated by the Supreme Court’s nullification of the election of Lawrence Zimba, the then MMD Member of Parliament, following a successful appeal by PF losing candidate, Eddie Musonda.
Mr Zimba has been adopted by the opposition UPND to re-contest the seat while the ruling PF and UNIP have fielded Eddie Musonda and Francis Mwape respectively.
PF has scooped the seat with 20,123 votes. Oops they over inflated the rigged numbers.
we shall never have free election has long the paya farms are runing the gov
Viva .PF.Cant wait .fo results .
Could someone write a book about How Elections are rigged in Zambia. I think we need it.
Voters baise chungulo, like mighty iwine chungulo. Mukomfwa mailo nga yafuma ma 20 thousands kuli ba PF, don’t dabwa!
Ba Chipimo nabo lifontini, there’s nothing wrong with offering senior managers reasonable stake in the company -of course not 25%- anything less than 1% would be reasonable.
All the returning officers are Muchingans. Coincidence?
This is what will be happening if parties who are not confident insist on 50 plus 1.This self defence of accusing others not to be trustworthy just because they come from the same area with a leader they not supporting must stop.
We are tire of voting!!!
As things stand l can’t vote 4 any of these under 5s .They leave much to desire. Those talking about rigging y can’t u tell us how it is done. Otherwise u are just halluciting. Viva pf!
Sadly all the coments are off the topic, none of them seem to have adressed the issue at hand, voter apathy!